Question

I have one mysql event which will execute every 1 day and do some activity. Please find code snippets for the same.

delimiter |    
CREATE EVENT createTest     
ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 DAY 
DO
BEGIN
  -- Do some work
END |
delimiter ;

when i created this event it executes same time for the same day. For next day it executes (last execution + 24 Hour) scenario.

is it possible to set start time in events? I want to executes this events on every day 0 hour?

Answer 1

Yes, you can do it. Use STARTS option for this purpose.

CREATE EVENT event1
ON SCHEDULE EVERY '1' DAY
STARTS '2012-10-03 00:00:00'
DO 
BEGIN
 -- do something
END

Note, that event start datetime must be in a future.

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For @spt –

CREATE EVENT event1
    ON SCHEDULE EVERY '1' YEAR
    STARTS '2016-04-01 00:00:00'
    DO 
BEGIN
END

Also, if it is hard to create and setup event object, you can use GUI event object editor in dbForge Studio for MySQL (free Express edition allows it).